Thank you to sponsors and partners of PDX Bridge Festival’s 2011 celebrations!
Brunch on the Bridge presented by: 
World’s Largest Box of Doughnuts fabricated by:
BLOCK Party presented by:
Closing Party at the Crystal
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Tours & Speakers presented by:
Media Sponsors:
PDX Bridge Festival produced in partnership with:
PDX Bridge Festival and Google Places have teamed up to offer user reviews of Portland’s bridges! These reviews benefit the festival through support of our nonprofit mission to “raise awareness and foster appreciation of the Willamette River Bridges.”
Here’s some information about Google Places to help get you started: Ratings and Recommendations on Google
Simply click on each of the pictures below to review your favorite (or least favorite) Willamette River Bridge! Review all ten!
ST. JOHNS BRIDGE
FREMONT BRIDGE
BROADWAY BRIDGE
STEEL BRIDGE
BURNSIDE BRIDGE
MORRISON BRIDGE
HAWTHORNE BRIDGE
MARQUAM BRIDGE
ROSS ISLAND BRIDGE
SELLWOOD BRIDGE
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WHERE: Hawthorne Bridge
WHEN: Saturday, August 6, 10am-2pm
Kick off your shoes and spread out your blankets, Portland’s favorite open-air “extreme food” picnic experience is back again. On August 6, 2011, Portlanders will once again experience the Hawthorne Bridge as a grassy park, complete with trees, picnic tables, and croquet! See more details below.
Online ticketing has closed.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE GATE!
General Admission $25
Kids: Age 6 -11 $10
5 & Under Free!
Already got your tickets? Scroll down to the bottom of the page for important event information!
This time around, Brunch on the Bridge will be bigger, greener, and better than ever: The event will double in size to 28,000 square feet as we cover all six spans of the Hawthorne Bridge in fresh, locally grown grass.
Our focus is on food this year, and we have designed a number of one-of-a-kind experiences to tantalize your taste buds and delight your other four senses, too.
Here’s the skinny:
The magic is on the bridge this year, as Voodoo Doughnut will unveil “The World’s Largest Box of Doughnuts” in an attempt at the Guinness World Record! Attendees will not only see the current record broken, but are encouraged to bring the doughnuts home with them. (Please take some home!)
Attendees are welcome to sample from an array of brunch-y foods (which is included in the cost of entry), purchase food from the vendor food court, or bring their own picnic baskets to the event. A PDX Bridge Festival Games Master will also return with a croquet course, cornhole, and other family fun. Look for the already-surreal ambiance to be enhanced even further through the presence of musicians and colorful performers.
PDX Bridge Festival 2011 has chosen B-Shares, a local bike delivery program serving hungry populations in need, as a charity beneficiary of the event. Working with B-shares and event sponsors, the Festival looks to triple last year’s food drive donations of 700 lbs of food to local shelters. Donation barrels will be on-hand at local Whole Foods stores, as well as at the event itself. PDX Bridge Festival encourages attendees to bring canned goods to the gate!
Art is an integral part of the Bridge Festival, and local artists will once again create one-of-a-kind picnic tables, which will be auctioned off and on display at local Whole Foods locations. Winning bidders receive entry for four and a VIP brunch basket for four – and will also take the tables home with them.
Tickets to the Brunch on the Bridge are $25 for regular entry and include a sample of Portland’s finest products from leading natural food companies in the region.
Online ticketing has closed.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE GATE!
General Admission $25
Kids: Age 6 -11 $10
5 & Under Free!
IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION:
Food Donations:
PLEASE BRING NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS to be collected at the entrance, which will be delivered to local food banks through B-Line, a bike delivery program serving hungry populations in need.
CASH ONLY!
For the ease of our mobile vendors, our box office, merchandise booth and Mimosa garden, please bring cash. There will be lots of free food sampling, as well as a massive quantity of free doughnuts, but if you wish to purchase anything on-site we ask that you stop by the ATM before arriving at the event. As you can imagine, we are on a bridge, so the technology required to run credit card machines and ATMs is limited. We appreciate your cooperation.
Getting Here & Parking:
The event entrance will be located on the west side of the Hawthorne Bridge (Map It!). Vehicle parking is available downtown and at the east end of the bridge. Bike parking will be located near the gate to the event. Sidewalks will remain open to bicycles and pedestrians, so please be courteous to regular commuters. TriMet bus service will be re-routed for the period of the event. View the TriMet service map here to locate your best bus or MAX train route. The event entrance is in the Free Fare Rail Zone.
Venue:
For your safety and the safety of other participants, please wear flat shoes. You may also go barefoot! Food will be available for sampling, and food vendors will be on hand should you wish to purchase at participating food carts. Of course, you are always welcome to bring your own picnic baskets. Please NO ALCOHOL! Mimosas will be available for $5 in our Mimosa Garden!
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PDX Bridge Festival 2011
July 29 – August 7
Festival Events & Information
Radiating like spokes from downtown Portland, the ten bridges that span the Willamette River are central to regional identity, tying the geography and cultures of Portland into a vibrant whole. Beginning with the Hawthorne Bridge Centennial in 2010—followed closely by the Steel Bridge (2012) and the Broadway Bridge (2013) Centennials—we introduced PDX Bridge Festival as an annual, citywide cultural arts festival that celebrates the Willamette River Bridges while harnessing the power of Portland’s creative capacity.
PDX Bridge Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) volunteer-led non-profit organization made up of everyday bridge advocates, with the simple but ambitious goal of celebrating the bridges with a civic festival of artistic excellence. Our mission is to raise public awareness and foster appreciation for the Willamette River bridges through educational, historic, cultural and artistic programming.
The PDX Bridge Festival reinvents the bridges as staging grounds for individual works of art and performance. While showcasing the convergence of industrial design and artistic endeavor, and presenting a diverse program of gallery exhibitions, speakers, musical events and performance, we create a valuable cultural tourist destination in the heart of Portland. Drawing large numbers of visitors and residents to events, our goal is to bring people together in a spirit of civic pride, aesthetic wonder, and community engagement. In short, PDX Bridge Festival treats the bridges as a canvas upon which to tell the story of Portland—who we are, where we come from, where we are going, and how we choose to express the culture of our great city.
Here you’ll find PDX Bridge Festival items to fit any budget. Whether you’re looking for something stylish, something useful, or something simply stunning, we promise not to steer you wrong with this stuff–t-shirts, bumper stickers, art, belt buckles…something for everyone!
The bridges of Portland present a distinct variety of function, beauty, and character, and the value of transforming them into a celebratory space for its citizens is unprecedented. We cannot do this without your help, and sponsorship is a great way for your business to get involved with Portland’s newest arts festival. When you become a sponsor of the PDX Bridge Festival, you can expect:
• Increased visibility for your business
• Public recognition of your financial support
• Multi-media promotion of your company as a supporter of the cultural arts in Portland
PDX Bridge Festival, Inc. is a collaborative, non-profit entity made up of everyday bridge advocates, with the simple but ambitious goal of celebrating the bridges with a civic festival of artistic excellence. Our team consists of artists, event planners, local government, leading businesses, media partners, and Portland’s top audio/visual houses, and draws on wide creative talents to produce an awe-inspiring public arts celebration with longevity and magnetism.
Driven by the belief that the centennials of the Willamette River Bridges provide a unique opportunity to raise the cultural capital and economic health of our region, our team is building alliances between individuals and businesses representing the full spectrum of our audience. The marshaling of these various associations represents an investment in the community which is sure to provide amazing returns in the future.
Please, let us send you a sponsor packet today, so that we can better discuss what level of sponsorship is right for you and your business.
For more information contact creative director, Tucker Teutsch 3.0: tucker@pdxbridgefestival.org
The PDX Bridge Festival highlights the city’s bridges because the bridges connect the people of Portland! And now we want to connect with you. We would love to hear your very own bridge story: You can post a short story, poem, embed a youtube video or just post a url to your favorite bridge artwork. Tell us your story!